Global Reach and Impact

To achieve a strong global collaboration, we work in partnership with world-class researchers, clinicians and investigators, and participate in respiratory conferences and networks globally.

International conferences we presented at during the year include:

- American Thoracic Society, Washington DC

- Australian Pacific Respiratory Society, Japan

- International Congress of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Perth, Australia

- North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Philadelphia, USA

- The European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress, Barcelona, Spain

- The International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health in Tulsa, Oklahoma

- The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and The Australia and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science (TSANZSRS) Annual Scientific Meeting, Christchurch, New Zealand

We are actively collaborating with colleagues and organisations around the world including:

- Prematurity’s Effects on the Lungs in Children and Adults Network (PELICAN) - the European Respiratory Society’s fourth clinical research collaboration. Associate Professor Shannon Simpson co-chairs the consortium alongside Dr Jenny Hallberg from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

- Research collaborations with:

• Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique

• Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid

• Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

• Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

• Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA

• Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery and Audiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

• Emory university, Georgia, USA

• ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain

• INSERM, Paris, France

• ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

• King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand

• Meyer Children’s Hospital, Florence, Italy

• Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Esplugues, Barcelona, Spain

• Respiratory Medicine, University College London, London, UK

• Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

• School of Medicine at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

• School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

• Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA

• The Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

• Thirona, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• University of British Columbia, Canada

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, NC, USA

• University of Manchester, UK

• University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

• University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

• University Health Network and University of Toronto, Canada

• Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan